Gallán in Knock, standing stone in County Cork

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What is recorded here

In uneven scrub beside townland boundary. Removed. May be stone (L 2.5m; 0.7m x 0.7m) now lying beside field fence. Recorded in OS Field Books of 1838 and 1840 as 'Cloughbawn "White Stone"...about 6 feet high' (Grove White 1905-25, vol. 2, 221). According to Bowman (1934, 250), 'Cloch Bhan' referred to c. 40 acres on SE of townland, in which stood the stone; he also noted standing stone as 'broken and removed'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO049-001

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